tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-314745142024-03-15T00:48:17.744-07:00I Am ADDamAdam Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18059275796499059520noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31474514.post-41416917829295973512014-08-10T15:25:00.000-07:002014-08-10T15:28:04.815-07:00Starting Off with the Basics #7CRT pixel tutorial:<br />
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So Two years ago my family and I visited Moon Lake in the high Uintas. We had a blast, amongst the swimming and fishing and hiking and volleyball; we played the classic X-men arcade game made by Konami. I thought it was super ugly and in my hubris, I redrew it how it would have looked if I designed it.<br />
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1.Start off with a design that you like.<br />
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2.In preferences; turn your "Image Interpolation" to nearest neighbor. This makes it so when you scale the image up and down it stays in a harsh pixelated interpretation.<br />
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3.Scale your image down by 10. This number is important because if you stick to it everything else will remain more consistant when you scale back up.<br />
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4.Scale you image back up by 10 and start to and add fake progressive scan lines by zooming in and making line about 3 pixels tall. Make sure they are even spaced.<br />
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5. Flatten your image and blur it a couple pixels.<br />
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6. Select your Red Channel and shift it 3 steps to the right. Select the Blue Channel and move it 3 steps to the left. The number of steps is not as important as making sure they are equal to each other<br />
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7. Add some Bloom to make it more buttery smooth and adjust the brightness and contrast until it is in range of the original image. The pixelating process usually darkens a piece so you have to counteract that in post.<br />
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Adam Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18059275796499059520noreply@blogger.com91tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31474514.post-66922463443729423972014-05-29T09:35:00.002-07:002014-08-11T19:12:41.836-07:00Like a PhoenixSo.... Blogger hosed all of my images for some reason?? Maybe I got hacked? I don't know what happened. So I start anew.<br />
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Adam Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18059275796499059520noreply@blogger.com34tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31474514.post-1153521487555805922006-07-21T15:36:00.000-07:002008-05-26T09:16:22.102-07:00Recent works<img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3626/3407/320/20steps.jpg" border="0" /> Here's a portrait of my daughter. When I showed it to her she, she asked me who it was.Adam Fordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18059275796499059520noreply@blogger.com10